"Fathers are here without families, and families without fathers, the pictures of horror and despair." "In short, all is horror.

I cannot write all: my mind is deeply impressed with grief.

Each teller makes the scene more horrible." He expressed the opinion that the evacuation was a benefit to England, and it unquestionably was.

He had not always thought so; but it must be allowed that the hopes and exultation with which he greeted the acquisition of the place had sufficient foundation, in the reported attitude of the people of Southern France, to justify the first opinion as well as the last.

The attempt was worth making, though it proved unsuccessful.